Personally, I tried calling the inhouse IT department to get whatever was being blocked unblocked (I know very little about networking so don’t ask me specifics here). They couldn’t really help me out for some reason. So instead I grabbed a copy of ntlmaps which basically allows you to create and run a proxy on your local machine that will grab all requests and re-package them as if they were coming from IE, thus allowing the communication to go ahead.

ntlmaps is a neat little python utility so you’ll need to get that on your ‘puter. Then pop the ntlmaps into a nice easy to find directory and read the Install.txt and readme.txt to get a little background and basic info. I went ahead and changed my server.cfg file filling in the following bits:

NT_DOMAIN:superCorp
USER:calvin
PASSWORD:hobbes
LM_PART:1
NT_PART:0

Now I’ve got a nice little local proxy ready to run – give it the old runserver.bat at the command line – and wait for it to fire up. You should get something like